MECC Supports Small Business in Damascus and Rural Damascus
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The Middle East Council of Churches (MECC) continues to implement its small business support program, believing in the importance of assisting the most vulnerable and empowering them to secure a dignified life for themselves and their families.
The program is carried out through the MECC Diakonia and Social Service Department – Diakonia, Syria Office.
MECC provided financial support to 27 small projects in Damascus and its Rural areas. The supported projects varied and included mini markets, Food processing, Dairy production workshop, carpentry, an Institute for providing courses in artificial intelligence and robotics, sweets shop, a heat press for transfer of images and designs onto t-shirts, handmade accessories using wood and resin, an electronic circuit manufacturing workshop, metal forming, beekeeping, painting work, and others.
In the first stage of the program, the beneficiaries participated in a 12-day training course on project management, during which they learned essential information about conducting feasibility studies, as well as foundational principles in marketing, promotion, and sales.
During the courses, participants prepared economic feasibility studies for the projects they wanted to establish. A specialized committee from the Diakonia Department of MECC evaluated these projects, awarded financial grants to successful ones, and the project owners began establishing them.
